Mark Burrows

What’s Shakin’,

Shakespeare?

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A Musical Celebration of Authors, Poets, and Reading

ContentsA Dark and Stormy Night ...................................................................................................................................................................................3

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night When Beethoven… Activity ..............................................................................7Edgar Allan Poe Reproducible Fact Sheet ............................................................................................................8

Jabberwocky ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9Fake It ’Til You Make It Activity ...........................................................................................................................13Lewis Carroll Reproducible Fact Sheet ..............................................................................................................14

The Wisdom in the Wit ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15…And Hilarity Ensues Activity .............................................................................................................................17Mark Twain Reproducible Fact Sheet ................................................................................................................18

What’s Shakin’, Shakespeare? ..........................................................................................................................................................................19Discovering Poetic Meter Activity ........................................................................................................................23William Shakespeare Reproducible Fact Sheet .................................................................................................24

The Moral of the Story ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 25Animal Anecdotes Activity ...................................................................................................................................29Aesop Reproducible Fact Sheet ...........................................................................................................................30

Reading Rocks! ......................................................................................................................................................................................................31Writing and Illustrating Rock, Too! Activity .......................................................................................................35Reading Rocks! Reproducible Fact Sheet ...........................................................................................................36

Poetry Slam ............................................................................................................................................................................................................37An Instrument Haiku Activity ............................................................................................................................. 41Poetry Slam Reproducible Fact Sheet ................................................................................................................42

The Best of Times ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 43A Tale of Two School Days Activity ......................................................................................................................46Charles Dickens Reproducible Fact Sheet ..........................................................................................................47

Scheherazade .........................................................................................................................................................................................................48Three Wishes Activity ........................................................................................................................................... 51The Thousand and One Nights Reproducible Fact Sheet .................................................................................52

Grimm Grooves ....................................................................................................................................................................................................53Tell Me a Tale Activity ..........................................................................................................................................54The Brothers Grimm Reproducible Fact Sheet ..................................................................................................55

CD Information .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 56

Dedicated to my senior English teacher, Bonnie Geiger.

Your encouragement of my early creative effortscontinues to make a difference in my life.

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A Dark and Stormy NightIt was a dark and stormy night,A dark and stormy night,When Edgar Allan PoeTook out his pen to writeA poem or a storyThat was ghastly, grim, and goryOn a dark and stormy night.

He wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum.”He wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart.”He wrote about the thingsThat happened in a morgue,And how the House of Usher fell apart.

It was a dark and stormy night,A dark and stormy night,When Edgar Allan PoeTook out his pen to writeA poem or a storyThat was ghastly, grim, and goryOn a dark and stormy night.

by Mark Burrows

He wrote of dreams and of fairy lands,And of the lost Lenore,The tintinnabulation of the bells, bells,

bells,And of the only word the raven said:“Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore,

nevermore.”

It was a dark and stormy night,A dark and stormy night,When Edgar Allan PoeTook out his pen to writeA poem or a storyThat was ghastly, grim, and goryOn a dark and stormy night.

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